# Kalpa Labs: steerable conversational speech models in beta

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Published: 2026-09-19
Updated: 2026-09-19
Research type: Company profile
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Kalpa Labs is building generalist audio models that can listen, speak, follow instructions and learn new voice tasks from context. The current product is already more concrete than a research-only demo: a conversational beta in Studio, a live browser experience and an API for teams building on the model.

## What it does

The [current Kalpa homepage](https://kalpalabs.ai/) says teams can direct a multi-speaker scene in Studio, talk to a model live in Realtime and build through a REST API. Its stated research direction is an audio model that handles speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech-in/speech-out reasoning, voice style and cross-modal tasks with instruction-following. The [documentation site](https://docs.kalpalabs.ai/) is linked as the build surface.

Kalpa’s [launch report](https://kalpalabs.ai/blog/towards-generalist-audio-models) describes the problem as a fragmented speech stack: separate systems for transcription, synthesis, voice design, conversation and dubbing. It reports

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